Kieron Gillen Quotes & Sayings

The only great darkness I'm good at fighting is the one inside all of us. I'd like to light a fire inside everyone that can burn forever — Kieron Gillen

I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles. — Kieron Gillen

When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it. — Kieron Gillen

I've always thought that if comics are a part of pop culture [then] they should reflect pop culture, but a lot of the time comics, superhero comics especially, just feed on themselves. For me, comics should take from every bit of pop culture that they can; they've got the same DNA as music and film and TV and fashion and all of these things. — Kieron Gillen

After all, nostalgia is an emotion for people with no future. — Kieron Gillen

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator. — Kieron Gillen

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases. — Kieron Gillen

Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans. — Kieron Gillen

Belief is all-important in what we do.

You believe, it burns, flickers and dies. The ashes mix with the soil and we call them memories. — Kieron Gillen

Look at Woden and his cheerily racist army of ethnic monocultured valkyrie fuck buddies. — Kieron Gillen

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half. — Kieron Gillen

Revolution is just change with ideological roots showing like bad peroxide. — Kieron Gillen

You forget who is master and who is student. It is your duty to learn what I know. It is my duty to learn what there is to teach. — Kieron Gillen

Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad? — Kieron Gillen

You can realize your dream, as long as it's got enough nightmare in it — Kieron Gillen

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published. — Kieron Gillen

When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts. — Kieron Gillen

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore. — Kieron Gillen

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love. — Kieron Gillen

Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things? — Kieron Gillen

A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass. — Kieron Gillen

I actually didn't see it coming. -Captain America — Kieron Gillen

Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses. — Kieron Gillen